Exciting things afoot!!
In an update to last post, a few exciting things have happened in the last 24 hours - the biggest being that my beautiful talented boy is going to join me down here much sooner than I had even hoped!! He's coming down here with me when I come back from my Melbourne visit in early December to start work!! The slight down side is that he'll then leave again in late January for 2 months; but will then be back to work April and May with me, if the job extends that far.
And the other exciting thing is that this has all happened because he's been offered a job up in Rocky directing the musical West Side Story up there! It's for the amateur musical society, but the pay their directors very well; and is just the sort of career move that Dav has been feeling the lack of recently. So very exciting for him; and while it means time away, it also gives me another good excuse to visit Qld in February sometime...
Admittedly my feelings are a little mixed - already there's that twinge of jealousy that he will be returning to a town where he is well-known and no doubt liked, and I'll be at best an unseen and unknown part of that; and I was definitely hoping to have him down here to myself - but that said, the offer in Rocky has meant that he needs to do his training down here earlier, which means we should get both Christmas AND New Year together!! Which is better than I could have hoped for!! Am very VERY much looking forward to living with my boy for a while; and also in a strange way relieved that for once it's my partner leaving ME for a job, and not the other way around. I may have found a boy here who will keep me on MY toes :) It can only be a good thing! It's fantastic that he's free enough to be able to take this job, which will hopefully lead to further directing gigs in Melbourne and Rocky for him.
It's interesting, Nigel made the comment when he found out I was Aquarian that 'Aquarians are most pre-occupied with their CVs'. I don't know about this; but I do know that my career IS important to me; I can't help it, that's just the way I am. So when Dav was looking at taking a job on a Bollywood film as a runner, I was disappointed as it meant he wouldn't be able to visit as I'd hoped. But this trip away is different - I know it's something that not only pays him what he's worth, but is a career move that will lead to further work, and hopefully towards his feeling fulfilled which can only make him feel good about other areas of his life too (as I do when I'm doing work I want to do and love); and so I feel more than anything pride and happiness for my talented boy. I'll miss him during the two months; but it gives me hope that whatever we do career-wise, we can be equals as professionals and keep our relationship balanced too. This has, in the past, been one of the hardest things for me - balancing professional and private life; and my overwhelming feeling of happiness for this opportunity for Dav gives me the hope that I am that much closer to finding happiness in my work and in my relationship, and still being able to fly free and go where I need to - and able to feel nothing but pride and trust in my beautiful boy, who can do the same.
And the other exciting thing is that this has all happened because he's been offered a job up in Rocky directing the musical West Side Story up there! It's for the amateur musical society, but the pay their directors very well; and is just the sort of career move that Dav has been feeling the lack of recently. So very exciting for him; and while it means time away, it also gives me another good excuse to visit Qld in February sometime...
Admittedly my feelings are a little mixed - already there's that twinge of jealousy that he will be returning to a town where he is well-known and no doubt liked, and I'll be at best an unseen and unknown part of that; and I was definitely hoping to have him down here to myself - but that said, the offer in Rocky has meant that he needs to do his training down here earlier, which means we should get both Christmas AND New Year together!! Which is better than I could have hoped for!! Am very VERY much looking forward to living with my boy for a while; and also in a strange way relieved that for once it's my partner leaving ME for a job, and not the other way around. I may have found a boy here who will keep me on MY toes :) It can only be a good thing! It's fantastic that he's free enough to be able to take this job, which will hopefully lead to further directing gigs in Melbourne and Rocky for him.
It's interesting, Nigel made the comment when he found out I was Aquarian that 'Aquarians are most pre-occupied with their CVs'. I don't know about this; but I do know that my career IS important to me; I can't help it, that's just the way I am. So when Dav was looking at taking a job on a Bollywood film as a runner, I was disappointed as it meant he wouldn't be able to visit as I'd hoped. But this trip away is different - I know it's something that not only pays him what he's worth, but is a career move that will lead to further work, and hopefully towards his feeling fulfilled which can only make him feel good about other areas of his life too (as I do when I'm doing work I want to do and love); and so I feel more than anything pride and happiness for my talented boy. I'll miss him during the two months; but it gives me hope that whatever we do career-wise, we can be equals as professionals and keep our relationship balanced too. This has, in the past, been one of the hardest things for me - balancing professional and private life; and my overwhelming feeling of happiness for this opportunity for Dav gives me the hope that I am that much closer to finding happiness in my work and in my relationship, and still being able to fly free and go where I need to - and able to feel nothing but pride and trust in my beautiful boy, who can do the same.
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